Basket.



'N0. 795,884. PATBNTED AUG. 1, 1905.

E. BEHNE.

BASKET.

APPLICATION FILED 113.20, 1905.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 1, 1905.

Application filed February 20,1905. Serial No. 246,619.

To LZ/Z whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, ERNST BEHNE, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. Louis, State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Baskets, of which the following is a full, clear, and eXact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof.

My invention has relation to improvements in baskets; and it consists in the novel construction of basket more fully set forth in the specification and pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal section of the basket on line 1 1 of Fig. 3.' Fig. 2 is a bottom plan view. Fig. 3 is an end elevation with parts broken away. Fig. 4 is a vertical cross-sectional detail on line 4 4 of Fig. 5, taken lengthwise of the basket. Fig. 5 is a cross-sectional detail on line 5 5 of Fig. 4, taken along the width of the basket; and Fig. 6 is a perspective detail showing a portion of the bottom frame with the vertical strips inserted into the recessed portions thereof.

The present invention is an improvement on the construction of basket shown and described in my United States Letters Patent, numbered 505,694, dated September 26, 1893, and has for its object to qualify and simplify the patented construction and reinforce the same in particulars, the advantages of which will be better apparent from a detailed description of the invention, which is as follows:

Referring to the drawings, 1 represents an upper frame joined at the corners by clips 2, as in my patent aforesaid. The top of the frame in my present improvement is reinforced by metal strips 3, dis osed between The lower rame 4 is substantially the same as in my patented construction except that in the present improvement the sides thereof are recessed at intervals to a depth sufiicient to receive the full thickness of the vertical strips 5, whereby the faces of the strips come flush with the contiguous faces of the said lower frame. These strips form the body-frame of the basket, being secured to the frame 4 by gluing and nailing and to the upper frame 1 in a manner similar to that shown in my patentthat is to say, being received in a groove of such upper frame. Embracing the lower ends of the strips 5 are the encompassing bands or strips 6, nailed directly to the frame 4, the meeting ends of said strips being embraced by the lower clips 7, as in my pat ented construction. The runners 8 are carried by the side members of the frame 4. The bottom 9 is secured to the frame 4 and to the cross-brace 4, forming a part of the lower frame.

The vertical strips 5 are interwoven by horizontal strips 10 of willow or rattan, as in my patent, the side walls of the basket beingin the present instance reinforced by the cross-pieces 11 11 of hoop-iron, at whose intersection they are riveted, their opposite ends being secured by bolts 12 to the adjacent ends of the terminal strips 5 of the side wall of the basket.

By embedding the strips 5 in suitable recesses of the lower framenot only a stiffer and more durable construction results, but there results also a better-finished product, the basket is more compact, and the vertical walls thereof more rigid.

The features to which no special reference is here made are either fully covered in my prior patent or Well known in the art, so that a description thereof at this time is unnecessary.

I may of course avail myself of all equivalents without in any wise affecting the nature or spirit of my invention.

I-Iaving described my invention, what I claim is- 1. A basket comprising a lower frame and an upper frame, the faces of the lower frame being provided with a series of recesses, a series of vertical strips having their lower ends embedded in said recesses and being flush with the adjacent faces of the frame, the upper ends of the vertical strips being received in the upper frame reinforcing cross-pieces for the vertical strips, and a series of strips encompassing the bases of the vertical stri s and secured to the lower frame, substantial y as set forth.

2. A basket comprising a lower frame and an upper frame, the faces of the lower frame being provided with a series of recesses, a series of vertical strips having their lower ends embedded in said recesses, their upper ends being received by the upper frame, a series of encompassing bands or strips for the lower ends of the vertical strips secured to the lower frame, and reinforcing cross-pieces for the sides of the basket having' their ends secured to the vertical strips, and being riveted to one anotherl at their point of intersection, substantially as set forth.

3. A basket comprising a lower irarne and an upper frarne7 the faces of the lower Jrarne being provided with a series of recesses, a series of vertical strips having their lower portions received by said recesses, and their upper ends inserted in the upper frame, clips at the corners ol the basket, reinforcing-strips disposed on top of the upper frame between the several clips, an encompassing series of bands for the lower ends of the vertical strips 

